The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-08-06

e signed for the transportation of heav,
] freight. 1t is intended for use between
Townsend and Great Falls, and will
shortly make regular trips over the route
, provided the waters do not recede so as t.
, make the Half Breed rapids impossible
The old Butte base ball club is to b,
reorganized. The club has record O
; winning twenty three games out of TWEEN
ty-fve played, and still believe they car
beat any team IN the territory. They will
challenge the Hellna club.
! The paymaster to succeed Maj. Blaine
deceased, at Helena, will be Maj. George
W. Candee, lately stationed at st. Louis
Major Candee was paymaster at Helena
in the early days, and until relieved by
Major r. c. Walker in 1871.
The Sun River canal from Teton to
Great Falls is completed. and works to
perfection. 1t is seventy-ive miles long,
and will open up to settlement over one
hundred thousand acres of the best agri-
cultural lands in the territory
st. Ignatius day was duly celebrated at
the Mission on the Flathead reservation,
Sunday last. The annual festivities were
participated in by three tribes of Indi-
ans--Flatheads, Kootenais and Pend
d'Oreilles-numbering about 700 or 500.
Articles of incorporation OF the Boze-
man Waterworks company have been filed
with the territorial secretary. The capl-
tai stock is $4,000, and it is intended to
begin work on the enterprise as soon as a
proper ordinance is passed by the city
council.
A serious accident occurred on the
Wickes branch of the Northern Pacific
Wednesday. The engine, for some un-
known cause, left the track just before
reaching Wickes, and turned completely
over, dangerously scalding the fireman.
Passengers were obliged to foot 1t to
Wickes.
Yellowstone Journal: Companies A B
and H, Fifth Infantry, have just been
ordered to march to the Tongue river
agency and there assist in the removal of
Black VOLTS band of Cheyennes from
that locality to the Pine Ridge agency.
The troops will move in day Or two and
the officers and men antici pate healthy
walk--about seventy miles.
Henry Jacobs, an old time resident of
Montana, died at Butte on the 3rd inst
He came to Montana in 1886, and opened
a store at Diamond City, afterwards form
ing partnership with Cans & Klein, aud
doing business at Butte under the firm
name of H. Jacobs s. Co. In 1879 he
was elected the first mayor of Butte. and
has held other Offices in that city and
county. He leaves wife and six chill |
dren, three sons and three daug ghters.
One of the daughters is Mrs. Morris
Sands, of Helena. Mrs. L. Marks, of
White Sulphur Springs, is sister of Mrs
Jacobs.
r. H. Munday, tramp arrested in
the other day ON the charge of /
''rolllng'' railroad employe, proved his
identity as the brother of two Chicago
The brothers were tele-
graphed to and sent out physician to
investigate. The physician identified the
alan as the youngest of the three
brothers, who startest out west two years
ago with $4,000 to make his fortune.
Dissipation soon squandered his funds
md his vicious habits finally led HIM to
ho condition of a common tramp. The
chicago physician took hold Of the prod
gal son and started back with him for
lis former home, where it is hoped he
will ''straighten up
On Thursday morning last the body
If man was discovered on Warren street
n Helena, by two laborers going to their
work. Papers found upon the person
# the deceased revealed his identity as
Ohm E. Klotzman, of Sandy, Oregon,
sheep shearer who had been employed {,
n tie northern part of the territory. A 3;
'ottle containing morphine and labeled !
poison was also found upon his per-
on. A coroner's jury was summoned,
'ut there was nothing in the evidence s
dduced to give rise to a suspicion
f foul play, and as death By suicide
'as only conjectural, they returned |
verdict to the effect that deceas- {
d came to his death from causes to
lry unknown. The Helena police will
lake further efforts to unravei the mys-
cry. :